Russian pays mystics "to lift curse"
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,17
 Reuters - Russian police are looking for two
mystics who persuaded a student to part with over 91,000 pounds
in exchange for lifting a curse, RIA news agency reported on
Sunday.
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"Stuff Happens" play sears Rumsfeld
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,17
 Reuters - A play that skewers U.S. Defence
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld as arrogant and war-mad has opened to
a largely favourable welcome in New York this week, even as
former generals turn against him in Washington.
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Japanese men's spending spree aims for beauty
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Monday Apr,17
 Reuters - Makoto Ishitoko strutted, pirouetted and
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Man Trading Up From Paper Clip to House
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
 AP - Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else — and so on and so on until he had a house?
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
Farmers on New Zealand's South Island have been counting bunnies this Easter, but not the chocolate variety.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
Milo Hirt was a little uneasy last week. Recovering from knee surgery, he was about to be poked with 10 needles to help his recovery.
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Woman Accused Of Acid Attack At Wedding
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
An Albany woman was accused of crashing a Sudanese wedding party early Sunday and splashing people with a glass bottle full of acid, injuring six people, authorities said.
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Man Using Paper Clip To Barter For House
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
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Man Using Paper Clip to Barter for House
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
 AP - Kyle MacDonald had a red paper clip and a dream: Could he use the community power of the Internet to barter that paper clip for something better, and trade that thing for something else — and so on and so on until he had a house?
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Gator Takes Over Car Dealership
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
A 9-foot alligator had to be dragged from a car dealership in Merritt Island, Fla., after technicians working on cars had to leave a service bay where the animal had taken up residence on Saturday.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
A nine foot alligator was had to be dragged from a car dealership in Merritt Island Saturday, after technicians working on cars had to leave a service bay because the gator took up residence.
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Lifelike, pregnant robots are being used in increasing numbers of medical schools and hospital maternity wards as medicine rapidly abandons old training methods that use patients as guinea pigs, say medical experts.
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(AP)
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
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Firefighters Find Pot Stash, Dude Flees
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
Firefighters dousing a fire in a new home were confused when the man they thought was the owner suddenly left until they found $700,000 worth of marijuana plants in the basement, officials said.
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Americans are split down the middle over whether teaching the Bible in public schools crosses the line separating church and state, according to a CBS News poll.
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(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
AP - Firefighters dousing a fire in a new home were confused when the man they thought was the owner suddenly left — until they found $700,000 worth of marijuana plants in the basement, officials said.
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Russian pays mystics 'to lift curse'
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
Reuters - Russian police are looking for two
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
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Baby born on metro to ride for free
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Sunday Apr,16
A mother became the first rider to have a baby on a metro train in Medellin, Colombia, en route to a hospital - with an attending physician, to boot.
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Cat saves baby's life
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Reuters - A cat saved the life of a newborn baby
abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of
the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police
spokesman said Saturday.
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(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
AP - When Jason Silvestri heard about Foxwoods Resort Casino's new signature cocktail, the police officer almost choked on his Absolut vodka and cranberry juice. "What?" he said. "$3,000?"
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Australian Cheerleaders Told To Cover Up
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Australian cheerleaders have been banned from baring midriffs by officials of the sport who fear displays of skin may encourage eating disorders.
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Australian Cheerleaders Told to Cover Up
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
AP - Australian cheerleaders have been banned from baring midriffs by officials of the sport who fear displays of skin may encourage eating disorders.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Hundreds of Russians have gathered for the first day of the annual "pig Olympics", cheering a field of 12 piglets competing in three events: pig-racing, pig-swimming and "pigball".
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"Olympic" pigs put through their paces
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
 Reuters - Hundreds of Russians gathered for the
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field of 12 piglets who competed in three events: pig-racing,
pig-swimming and "pigball".
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Russians put "Olympic" pigs through their paces
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
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first day of the annual "pig Olympics" on Saturday, cheering a
field of 12 piglets who competed in three events: pig-racing,
pig-swimming and "pigball."
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Prize in N.D. Bowling Tourney Is the Alley
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
AP - The winner of a bowling tournament here gets a unique prize — the bowling alley.
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Two fathers arrested after Abbey protest
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
 Reuters - Two fathers' rights campaigners were
arrested on Friday after scaling Westminster Abbey with a
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Cat in Germany saves baby's life
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
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the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police
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Molly the cat rescued in New York
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Molly the cat that prompted a frenzied rescue operation after it got stuck between the walls of an old Greenwich Village building, was successfully freed from her trap to the delight of city residents.
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NYC Bomb Squad Probe 'Suspicious' Stereo
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
AP - The police bomb squad, responding Friday to a call of a suspicious device inside a parked minivan in midtown Manhattan, blew out the vehicle's windows — only to find out the item inside was simply stereo equipment, police said.
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Group Mistakenly Lists Foot Fetish Line
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
The Arkansas Teacher Retirement System doesn't encourage its members to call phone sex lines. But that changed this week, thanks to a typo.
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A woman apparently didn't want to leave a discount store on Thursday.
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A small stretch of this Wisconsin village might want to change its name to "Mount Unpleasant" now that the diaper dumper has struck again.
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NYC Cat Finally Rescued After 14 Days
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Molly the cat is finally free. After two weeks stuck behind a brick wall in a 19th century Greenwich Village building, workers rescued the bashful 11-month-old feline from her plight late Friday, according to Jean Tannenbaum, a spokeswoman for Animal Care & Control of New York City.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Saturday Apr,15
Arthur Winston, a longtime transit employee who received a citation from President Clinton for his decades of service, died in his sleep less than a month after retiring on his 100th birthday, his family said Friday.
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NYC Cat Finally Rescued After 14 Days
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,14
 AP - Molly the cat is finally free. After two weeks stuck behind a brick wall in a 19th century Greenwich Village building, workers rescued the bashful 11-month-old feline from her plight late Friday, according to Jean Tannenbaum, a spokeswoman for Animal Care & Control of New York City.
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New York races to save trapped cat
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Firemen, police and animal rescuers have embarked on a race against time to save a cat that has been stuck within the wall of a New York delicatessen.
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A small Tasmanian distillery has achieved what many thought was impossible - it is selling vodka to Russia.
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Posted by: The Dude, Date: Friday Apr,14
An 11-month-old cat named Molly appeared no closer to being rescued Friday, despite the addition of a pet psychic and mewing kittens to the ranks of those trying to lure the bashful black cat from behind the wall of a 19th century building that began two weeks ago.
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A young Singaporean man rescued from a freezing car in Japan while searching for an elusive karate master has finally found him and has been granted an honorary title.
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